East St. Louis News

East St. Louis' mayor says his struggling city is grappling with what he calls a "rising tide" of violence punctuated by the weekend deaths of three women gunned down outside a convenience store.

Police have arrested a man suspected of executing a triple-slaying on Saturday night at an East St.

A man is jailed on $2 million bond after being charged in the weekend shooting deaths of three women at a convenience store in East St.

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The Major Case Squad was called to investigate a homicide in East St. Louis Monday night, less than 48 hours after Saturday's triple murder case there.

A 21-year-old East St. Louis man was charged Tuesday afternoon with three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths Saturday night of three women.

The Major Case Squad was called in to investigate after another East St. Louis woman was shot to death.

East St. Louis has a new city manager. Robert Betts had held the job for more than three years before being fired Sunday night by the city council, which said East St.

Formal charges were expected today in Saturday night's triple-slaying at a convenience store at Martin Luther King Drive and Collinsville Avenue, officials said.

Police on Monday arrested a 25-year-old Centreville man in the shooting death Sunday afternoon of a 34-year-old East St.

Two former members of the city board claim Ron Grimming was passed over for the chief of police job because of the color of his skin, according to a St.

Witness describes gas station triple slaying November 08, 2009 21:31 EST EAST ST.

Share + Nov 8, 2009 6:15 pm US/Central EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. Three women were shot to death at an East St.

Three women are dead after gunfire erupted at an East St. Louis gas station around 9:30 Saturday night.

Two people are dead, two others injured after a shooting at the Crown Food Mart in East St.

Some firefighters are upset because they said city officials are once again violating their contract by not paying them overtime but allowing police officers to work overtime.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A former worker at an Illinois federal lockup is now headed to federal prison for lying to investigators about a behind-bars tobacco-dealing operation that earned him $35,000. In addition to six months in prison, 45-five-year-old Kenneth White of Centralia also was ordered Friday in East St.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Sentencing will be in February for an Army veteran who plotted with his wife to bilk the U.S. government by faking paralysis to get disability benefits and avoid being deployed to Iraq.

A southern Illinois man faces up to 20 years in federal prison after admitting he robbed a bank this summer.

The article by Jonathan Kozol, "Savage Inequalities in America's Schools: Life on the Mississippi" was disturbing, to say the least.